ONE LESS
DEMOCRAT TO WORRY ABOUT:KOOK SHOOTS HIMSELF
OVER BUSH VICTORY

By: Frederick Meekins

There is one less Democrat to worry about. A kook from Georgia is believed
to have shot and killed himself at the World Trade Center Site in despair
over President Bush's reelection victory. While sympathies natural go
out to his family, frankly, this nut got what he deserved. Is any election
in this country worth taking to such an extreme?

Life here is not yet that
onerous. Nor should it have been for this self-inflicted victim, who is
reported to have had a decent job in a university computer lab and was
engaged to be married.

Sounds to me like he had
a lot to live for. Hope he thinks George Bush was worth it.

In a system such as ours,
political suicide would seem to be a pointless, wasteful act with other
outlets of expression readily available to citizen inclined towards activism.
Hadn't this nitwit ever heard the adage "He who fights and runs away
lives to fight another day”?

Starting a blog would have
been a lot less painful and possibly more persuasive, you‘d think..

Frankly, killing oneself
over politics is about as pointless as one of Jesse Jackson or Mitch Synder's
hunger strikes. Don't you want your opposition to do themselves in and
if done so by their own hand, they have no one to blame but themselves.

One of the dangers of liberalism
has been to elevate politics to a place of centrality at the expense of
other areas of life. Sometimes it's just to hard for sane, balanced people
to see just how far the disturbed are willing to take things in pursuit
of a cause.